coza Registration
Does registering a .co.za domain annoy you? Having to copy/paste your address everywhere? Well, it annoyed me enough to make this little web-based form that’ll spit out a copy of the text form ready for you to email off (once you’ve confirmed it manually, of course).
coza Registration form generator
Also, some people are under the impression that registering a .co.za is hard - quite the opposite, it’s just a bit time-consuming. Once you have your nameservers and they have records for your domain, fill in the form and send it off. Provided everything is ship-shape you’ll get a confirmation email back shortly, and you can then deposit your annual registration fee.
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Gavin on May 3rd, 2007
it’s not hard, it’s just a pain in the dick; especially with all the waiting if you want to change your nameservers :)
Chris M on May 7th, 2007
I agree, bloody pain in the butt if you ask me! I wrote some similar code to yours on your.co.za, also on the fly generation of the coza.txt file, beauty of the system I wrote is that it actually emails the form through too - which saves the annoying part.
There servers have been messed lately tho, I’ve lost 3 domains in the last month thanks to their non responsive system :(
Oh well, South Africa is still behind the rest ;)
Mike on May 7th, 2007
I’m just about the use the coolness to update my domains.
i shall be using it again in the future
mel on May 9th, 2007
Mail uniforum (.co.za registrar) and show them the form. They are obliged to make registration as accessible as possible, so getting rid of that user-terrifying text-based form would be a good start. It’s good, and they definitely look like they need some help in the usability department.
If South Africa is behind in this, I’d say South African IT ‘professionals’ are partly to blame. If we weren’t so content to make money off people’s inability to access tech services, we might try harder to make them accessible in the first place.